2014-10-26 - Writing

Writing and I don't always get along. A lot of times I'm not in a position to write when I'm having ideas and have difficulty remembering those ideas when I'm in a position to write. I'm a terrible speller and have issues with vowels and double letters. I will also quite regularly have issues figuring out what the word is that I am thinking of. That being said I quite enjoy writing.

The main thing I enjoy about writing is that it's a good way to complete thoughts. Writing allows me to take something that I've been thinking about, nail it down, and then get it out of my head. Thoughts change the more you think about them but writing forces you to make them static. To come up with some final version of a thought. Then once you've got that finished thought you can ignore it for a while.

The other thing I enjoy about writing is that it's a good way to learn. I find reading about a topic so that I can write about it causes me to look more critically at sources and to examine them more closely to try and find the important bits of information. I also find that writing about a topic and putting the information into my own words allows me to remember it better. The processes forces you to think about the topic in multiple ways and in the end you have a references that fits perfectly with how you think.

So that's why I write and the kinds of things I am likely to put up on this blog. Of course the second thing means that I'm not an expert on a lot of what I talk about so you should ignore most of it.